413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Time grows short, my love. Let’s end with the beginning of the world, shall we? Yes. We shall.

Well, I mean, just the sight of something awful and incomprehensible isn’t going to send me off frothing at the mouth,” Veneza says. It’s nonchalant, but there is a shaken note to her voice nonetheless. “I’m from Jersey.

All you know is what they’ve told you, and they tell you so little. They think if we don’t know anything, they’ll be able to keep control-and they’re right. How can you want something you’ve never seen, don’t have the words for, can’t imagine?

No voting on who gets to be people.

Then she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

Astra inclinant, sed non obligant;.

Wounds get better. What makes grief get better?” “Nothing. Time can ease it, but nothing ends it.

But the real disaster is that Atlantis became just a story. It failed so catastrophically that the entire human race shifted into a branch of realities in which Atlantis never existed at all.

But your ’mest is in there doing Evil Earth knows what, and I’m basically asking you if it’s okay to kill her, because that’s about where I am right now.